The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-12
Personal,

Miss Hiss hitchcock, OF ieoria, 10
visiting Miss T. f. Gapen.
Tnos.-T, W. D. Crane, Esq, is in Omaha,
on business.
BErrgR.-W. r. Buffers. who was very i'll,
is improving.
REgD.-Supervisor John F. Reed, has
bought the handsome residence property OF
Mr., s. 8. Scott, on the east side, and offers
for sale his former dwelling, roomy and
comfortable place.
SID R.-Mr. J. +, Porter is rigging up
his excursion ste .mboi', the "si lney r.
in e shape, aud is building large barge,
to be towed along side, for the accommeda
ton Of dancers.
CLxRK.--E. j, Kelly, the present city
clerk, will be a candidate for reelection to
the city clerkship. lie has made most &C
ceptable officer. Jake b. Shuler is also in
the field.
BErrgR.-Treasurer Hoffman had q very
close call one night this week, but last even
| ng WAS much better.
MAR.-Walter N. Dimmick, q former Of
tawa boy. now at Portland, Oregon. was
marie on Thursday evening, at Santa Bar.
bara, Cal, to Miss Fannie Wright.
THos. -Thos. Sanders, q clerk in L. Y.
Griggs' drug store, has gone to Chicago to
take course Of lectures in Pharmacy.
IMp.-J. Il. Scott & Co. have greatly i'm
proved the interior Of their extensive store
by lowering the desk and putting window
through the wall in the rear, which will
materially improve both ventilation and
light.
WED.-NIrs. A. Hess and Miss Bertha
Oestreicher, were in Chicago on Wednesday
attending the wedding Of relative.
LorrlE.-Mss Lottie Eldridge entertained
q number of her friends on Monday.
HURr.-wm. Hamilton fell from load of
furniture, a few days ago. and dislocated q
knee. He was hauling household goods from
the Dyer farm, west of the city to the Ken
dali farm, In South Ottawa.
EMIL.-Mr. Emil Gondolf has gone to
Wichita, Kansas.
JoHN-John Sutton has returned from a
three months visit in Iowa.
FUNK-W. A. Funk, Esq, Streator
lawyer, takes change Of venue from that
village to Lakefeld, Mimi, his future home.
G.-Mr. G. Gehring, now at Wichita, Kas
returned here on brief visit last Monday
lie can't get over his "first love- for Ottawr
PERRY--E A. Perry has returned from
trip to Missouri,
Eo,--George Forbes is home from bu.i.
ness trip to Colorado.
MINYlE.-Miss Minnie Faulstich has re
turned from trip to Iowa.
DuM.-Mr W. II. Dunlbeck, Of Peoria, is
here on business
Mrs. S.-Mrs Sabin, of Minneapolis, is
the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Hard.
KArE.-Miss Kate White, the milliner n,
the Nine Cent Store, is home from trip tC
st. Louis
No-will Leahy is not a candidate for any
Office.
GAUL.--Jacob Gaul, who has had about AZ
hard lot as falls to man in the way of sick.
ness, is about again, the ghost of his former
self
MARY. Miss Mary Sinnott is a new clerk
at Lynch's.
BowER.-Mr II. A. Bowermaster and
family, nine in number, from Ohio, have 10
Gated in this city
NlCK.-W, G. Nickerson, for sometime in
the tailoring busidess here, now located at
Rock lsland, has been here this week visit.
ing his many friends.
HARD. G, Hardy, an attaches of the
Chicago Tribune, was the guest of W. W.
Taylor last Sunday.
kArIE.-Miss Cattle Gleim has become n
clerk at Lynch's.
BoYLR.-Mrs. B. C. Boyle, accom- anied
by Master Harry and Miss Carter, returned
homo last evening. after an absence of six
weeks spent in visiting relatives in Little
Rock and Hot Springs, Ak.
GRIFFITH.-We commend to our readers An
article elsewhere by Mr.. A. W. Griffith, on
Country Roads which is worth attention
by our readers south and southwest of the
city. We notice by the way by clipping
from an old newspaper heading that In 1853
MIR. Griffith was manager Of the Connorsville
Observer, Fazette Co.. Pa. To this accounts
for the professional flavor that surrounds all
Of Mr.. G.'s copy that comes to this Office.
1t is so good we have had suspicion for
some time he had had newspaper training of
some sort. and are pleased to find our sur.
misses correct.
AoESr.-Mr. J. d. Morgan has gone into
the real estate business. He has the agency
for both buyers and sellers Of lots about
town. and sells property at owners figures.
so that buyers do not have to pay The agents
commissions.
NEw.-Mrs. Chas. Neubert leaves the citv
today to join her husband at Kansas City,
their future home.